Crossplatform
Plants VS. Zombies
So the Casual gamer master of all time has done it again! In spring 2009 they released this superb game called ”Plants vs. Zombies”. You can find it at THIS place. At it’s core it belongs to the genre TD (Tower Defence Games). Most surly as old as Tetris at least. But it does not end here. Popcap has done the second only thing one can do when a new inventions is not possible: improved upon something allready existing. So with a huge dose of irony and funny bone they have made a true gem of on the casual game heaven.
Basically you have to protect your self from a nearly never ending line of funny looking zombies. The come through your lawn, backyard, pool and over your roof. The leave funny little notes to you and much more. To your aid you use a plethora of trust plants. The too come in many shapes and forms. The game changes day and night cylcles now and again, as well as actual location. You will allways see what types of zombies you will encounter som you can choose plants wisly.
The game is also littered with mini games and surprises. All in all it is a fantastic thing they have made. It truly is! The player is constantly kept busy. Picking up sunshine, money, planting new plants and also keeping an eye out on the zombies themselves. You can unlock new minigames and other stuff during your playing. What starts out simple enough soon becomes very difficult but in the sam time hard to stop doing.
They have also released the game on multiple platforms so no one gets left out of the fun.
At the end: if you are only to pay one indy developer this year let it be Popcap. They most surly deserves it - AGAIN
Update...
The excellent
development platform ”Unity” now have reached
version 2.1
If you are thinking about creating games on mac and want to reach Linux,
Windows AND Mac users - then look no further. This is as good as it gets
without going broke and investing in new gaming engines and such.
And better yet, if you can code you can create in Unity!
So go get a Mac and get cracking at it - what ARE you waiting for?!
If you are thinking about creating games on mac and want to reach Linux,
Windows AND Mac users - then look no further. This is as good as it gets
without going broke and investing in new gaming engines and such.
And better yet, if you can code you can create in Unity!
So go get a Mac and get cracking at it - what ARE you waiting for?!
Condeminium
Since I am
now firmly planted in the ground at the ”Mac farm”
I search for good games to play nativly on MacOs.
I recently stumbeled upon this small indy house called
”Codeminium” and two of their titles had my attention
almost right away.
First out is the game ”Saqqarah” which basically defines the
genre ”puzzle”. It is highly inspired by the egyptian look and
feel. A lot of speech and animations ontop of lots and lots of
graphic effects make this gem visually very attractive.
But the gameplay is hugly well made too.
I will not go into detail to much but this is one of the best
small indy games I’ve seen (in it’s genre) in a long while.
Worth every penny of the registration fee.
Second and lastly we have the game ”Stone Loops - Jurassica”.
If you ever played Zuma or Zuma2 (or similar) you know what
kind of game this is. Like Saqqara it is highly addictive and very
nice looking. The feeling of ’one-more-level’ is very clear.
Both games have a very nice price and the the registration key
works both in the Mac and Windows version of the game.
Both games can be played on all modern macs, even the small ones.
So basically you get two games at the price of one - on two different
OS’es. This is indy development at it’s best!
Go here and registrer these right away!
I search for good games to play nativly on MacOs.
I recently stumbeled upon this small indy house called
”Codeminium” and two of their titles had my attention
almost right away.
First out is the game ”Saqqarah” which basically defines the
genre ”puzzle”. It is highly inspired by the egyptian look and
feel. A lot of speech and animations ontop of lots and lots of
graphic effects make this gem visually very attractive.
But the gameplay is hugly well made too.
I will not go into detail to much but this is one of the best
small indy games I’ve seen (in it’s genre) in a long while.
Worth every penny of the registration fee.
Second and lastly we have the game ”Stone Loops - Jurassica”.
If you ever played Zuma or Zuma2 (or similar) you know what
kind of game this is. Like Saqqara it is highly addictive and very
nice looking. The feeling of ’one-more-level’ is very clear.
Both games have a very nice price and the the registration key
works both in the Mac and Windows version of the game.
Both games can be played on all modern macs, even the small ones.
So basically you get two games at the price of one - on two different
OS’es. This is indy development at it’s best!
Go here and registrer these right away!